Monday, 10 December 2012

The Real Woodhenge

Figures 2 and 3 above are the results of a
privately funded GPS survey made in 2008.

Fig 2shows Woodhenge as it actually is when correctly oriented to north.
The triangles that its geometry is founded upon are also shown. Some of these
founding triangles are Pythagorean, others are not. Good effect was made by
converting the metric GPS measurements into Professor Thom’s megalithic yards at
the rate of one megalithic yard equalling 0.8297 metres. Woodhenge’s geometry
can be seen to be locked in place by a line that passes between posts one and
two seen in the top right-hand corner of the plot.

Fig 3 is rotated
anticlockwise 40-degrees to match the major standstill of the moon. Rotating
Woodhenge in this way makes it very clear that its major axis of symmetry points
at the moon - not the sun, as archaeologists would have us believe.

Two supernumerary posts were placed to guide a shaft of solstice sunlight
down a corridor causing it to illuminate the grave of a child. Professor Thom
threw a spanner in the works by ignoring this corridor proposed by Woodhenge’s original
excavator Mrs Maud Cunnington, and claimed a more northerly solstice aimed on
the very first glint of the sun…. something we now know is wrong. The real corridor
is aligned on half-orb as seen below.

Fig 4: Solstice
morning at Woodhenge. The tape on the left represents the axis of symmetry of Woodhenge’s
outer egg and points to where the moon will rise at major standstill.

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Why should Professor Alexander Thom, a brilliant engineer and mathematician,
having surveyed Avebury so accurately, complain that he had measured Woodhenge
with a stretchy tape?

Why also, when returning home to Dunlop in Scotland did he compensate
for that ‘stretchy tape’ by deducting a variety of percentages from his
measurements? Why, also, when later living and working in Oxford did he not
take the opportunity to return to Woodhenge and check his measurements properly
– a simple three-hour job? His datum post, from which he worked, remains in the
middle of the site to this very day.

Why also did he not realize that the major axis of Woodhenge actually
points at the moon? Again, why did he not seem to realizethat Woodhenge gave
him the best chance of proving the megalithic yard – his life-long dream?

About Me

I served my apprenticeship at
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft as a fitter-turner, and whilst there gained a Full
Technological Certificate in workshop engineering.

I became Apprentice of the year
in 1961, but later and with less military-type aircraft being required in
peacetime, and with no new orders coming in, sought employment elsewhere.

I took many jobs over the
coming years, becoming a toolmaker in mid-life. Then later, and taking an
interest in computer controls, studied for and passed the City and Guilds
advanced C.N.C exam with credits.

However, it was not until
becoming a technician at the University of Warwick that I was able to devote
myself fully to C.N.C programming, and for four and a half years refused to
manufacture components or assemblies by anything other than computer controlled
machines.

Whilst at university I took
courses in archaeology, the Celts and publishing, and gained full credits for
each of those disciplines.

Solved Stonehenge five years ago, but found that archaeologists do not want the public to know.